12. v Or, understand it not. § Or, line. t...(There is not another; but there be some that trouble yon ...Ga. 1, 7. Ch. 3, 1; and 5, with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by s Or, with me. themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you." 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the Gospel of Christ: 15 not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's "line of things made ready to our hand." 1766 BUT HE THAT GLORIETH, LET HIM GLORY IN THE LORD." 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." m As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoice ing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the o Or, magnified in you. π Or, rule. n Yea, so have I strived to preach not where Christ TOULI 11 Wouded His refusal to unkindness,but to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly:9 and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may receive support present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." 3 But I fear, lest by was not from any means, as the serpent beguiled Eves through his subtilty, was named, lest from a consul- So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in erate policy, 1 Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye, have not received, or another Gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.* 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles." But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. I should build upon another man's founda tion. Ro. 15, 20. o Is. 65, 16. Je. 9, 23, 24. 1 Co. 1, 31. p... Let another and not thine own mouth; a thine own lips. man praise thee, stranger and not Pr. 27, 2. q...That I may boast myself a little. Ve. 16; Ch. 5, 13; and 12, 6. Or, ye do bear with me. -15. I committed an offence in abasing" myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Gospel of God freely? I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man; for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, 'no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia." 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no r...Not having great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousspot or wrinkle, ness; whose end shall be according to their works. 16 I say again, Let no a Ve. 1. man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool "receive me, labours proved that I may boast myself a little." 17 That which I speak, I speak eas it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you Circumcised the alic, he on the face. 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.c 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak 3,5. said......He is a My name before kings and the rael; for I will shew him how My name's sake. e d...... The Lord as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, Ac. 9, 15, 16; & 21, 11. 1 Co. 15, 10, 31. e Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed ...De. 25, 3. ƒ Ac. 16, 23. Ac. 14, 19. h...They went about to slay him ...Ac. 9, 29. i Let us go...and visit our brethren in every city ...and see how they do. Ac. 15, 33 12 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions God also gave him private manifestations as a source of years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out For 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of The disinter of himself and very chiefest apos 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds." 13 For what is it 13 For what is it ested conduct wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I Titus, 12-18. myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a 18 I desired Titus, gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? Luke? 2 Ti. 4, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 11. Ch. 8, 18, 19. g...We commend not ourselves a 2 Co. 5, 12. His resolve you 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find edifying. gain unto you. sary he will such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye his apostolic would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, power, 19 backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; 21 and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the things, being ab- uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. h...Therefore write these I sent, lest being present I should use xiii. sharpness,13 This is the third time I am coming to you." "IN THE MOUTH OF TWO according to the power which the and not to des 10. come to you... Ch. 12, 14. 3 ye m Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all pa tience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. Ch. 12,12. ... Being put to flesh, but quickened by the death in the Spirit. 1 Pe. 3, 18. w Or, with him not the spirit of Christ he is none of his. Ro. 8, 9. p...The children 2, 13. OR THREE WITNESSES SHALL EVERY WORD BE ESTABLISHED. 2I told Lord hath given you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and If any man have me to edification being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all truction. Ch. 13, other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by which God hath the power of God." For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with given me...He. ...I am ready to him by the power of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, Who were genhow that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates 2o 6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong and this also we wish, even your perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. k Nu. 35, 30. De. 17, 6; and 19, 15. I fear lest when not find you such as I would, and I come I shall that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not...Ch. 12, 20. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of The Second Epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. a 238, The Epistle of PAUL the Apostle to the GALATIANS. (Acts six. 1.) THE writer of this epistle begins by announcing himself as Paul, an apostle, not of men but of Jesus Christ and God the Father" (i., 1); and in several parts of the epistle allusions are made to St. Paul by the writer in the first person. These claims are sustained by the unanimous testimony of the ancient church. This epistle has the remarkable peculiarity of having been written by the apostle's own hand (vi., 11). Perhaps the reason of this might be, that he wished to mark thereby his sense of the importance of the object he had in view in writing it, and his earnest concern for the success of it with the Galatians. That object was manifestly the counteracting of the Judaising influences which had assailed the churches of Galatia, -leading them to attempt an incorporation of Jewish rites and ceremonies with the institutions of Christianity; and, as a natural concomitant of this, to undervalue the authority and question the claims of Paul, the zealous opponent of such attempts. For the purpose of invalidating these hostile influences, the writer, after having in the first two chapters asserted and proved his commission and consequent authority as an apostle of Christ, proceeds in chapters iii. and iv., to illustrate and defend the cardinal doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith; after which he concludes the epistle with a series of hortatory and admonitory appeals, followed by the utterance of his own solemn conviction of the unspeakable worth of the doctrine he preached, and of his good wishes for those to whom he wrote. Much diversity of opinion has existed as to the probable date of this epistle. The judgment of the best critics is that it was written subsequently to a second visit paid by the apostle to Galatia, and during his residence at Ephesus. This epistle stands closely associated with that to the Romans, both as respects the topics and the phraseology. Taken together, these two epistles present a full and most instructive exposition of Christianity as a system of truth, and especially of the relations of the law to the Gospel and the only way of a sinner's salvation. ...Recommend ed to the grace of God for the work which they (Paul and Barnabas) fulfilled. Ac. 14, 26; Ve. 11, 12. Tit. 1, 3. was not possible that He should be holden of it. Ac. 2, 24. c......Redeem us ...Tit. 2, 14. d...Except ye be ter the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 1 Paud God Father, who raised him from the dead;)% 2 and all the AUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ,a | Ve. 1. 1 Co. 15, Salutation, 1 5. There cannot pel, 6-10. 1, 3. i...By revelation He made known unto me the mys k...I persecuted this way unto the death, binding & delivering into prisons both men and women. Ac. 22, 4. a Gr., equals in years. brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia : 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he tery... Ep. 3, 3. might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God b...... Because it and our Father: 5to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel :d 7 which is not another; be another gos- but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach from all iniquity any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be circumcised af- accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man." 12 For I neither received it of neither For Paul rewas I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For ceived that ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' reliwhich he pro- gion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, from God, 11 and wasted it :* 14 and profited in the Jews' religion above many my "equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous 8 Or, returned. of the traditions of fathers. 15 my 5 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen: immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 17 neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem but God, which to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles he was a disciple. saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Ac. 15, 1. ...went about to ren knew, they ...sent him forth to Tarsus. Ac. 9, 29, 30; & 22, 17 -21. o...They deter with and inde mined that Paul pendence of the and Barnabas, other apostles, and certain other of them, should salem...about this question (circumcision). Ac. 15, 2. P...They declared all things done with them. that God had Ac. 15, 4. y Or, severally. q 1 Co. 9, 21. r... Certain which ...troubled you ii. 9 churches......in Judea... suffered ...of the Jews... 1 Th. 2, 14. a That the Gen-i tiles should be fellow-heirs and of the same body, His promise in judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Ps. 143, 2. Ro. 1, 17; e For by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested...... even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ ...Ro. 3, 20-22. n... The Grecians the regions of Syria and Cilicia;" 22 and was unknown by face unto the For...the slay him, which, churches of Judæa which were in Christ: 23 but they had heard only, That when the breth- he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he 2 destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me. 1Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles," but pri- and partakers of vately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.? go up unto Jeru-4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in," who came in Enter not into privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you. 6 But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh and 3, 20, 28. no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: but contrariwise, when they saw that the Gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me,' as the Gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8(for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me" toward the Gentiles :) and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor;" the same which I also was forward to do. souls, saying, 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because cumcised.....Ac. he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel," I said unto Peter before them all, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the That they life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. with words subverting your FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently them in carnal set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are things. Ro. 15, 27. |